Chris Pratt Reveals He Used to Be a Stripper

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Chris Pratt has revealed that he became a stripper as a teenager because he loved being naked anyway and wanted to earn as much money as possible.

The 34-year-old actor, who has since starred in movies including Moneyball and Zero Dark Thirty, realized at 18 that stripping down for women could help him bring in some cash.

"I was always a very much naked person. I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, 'I may as well get paid'," he told BuzzFeed.

Pratt - who is now married and has a son with actress Anna Faris - performed at a bachelorette party, and was also hired for his friend's grandmother on her birthday.

"It was a surprise," he laughed. "I don't know how it got around to them, but they paid me $40. I was never like Magic Mike, you know. I did go one time and audition on a stage for a club, but I don't think I got the job. I don't think I'm a very good dancer."

Pratt also listed the other ways he made money, saying: "I cleaned peoples' cars, painted murals, worked for my dad, worked at a burger joint, was a room service waiter, worked at the snack bar at a bingo hall. I babysat and mowed lawns; I picked blackberries and sold them. I was always very enterprising as a kid. I was always trying to find some way to make money."

The star also discussed his upcoming movie Delivery Man, in which he plays a lawyer representing a man who finds out he has fathered 533 children after donating to a sperm bank 691 times.

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Discussing the likelihood of a man making that many visits to a clinic over the years, he said: "That's totally reasonable. If I only gave a quarter of my sperm donations to a clinic, I could still do it. In my late teens and early twenties?

"Oh jeez, you could have taken that much sperm out just by doing my laundry, or cleaning my sheets and laundering my socks... If I thought about it, I would have made a fortune myself."

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